Future Leader Profile: Kaitlin Endres
A passion for emergency response and an inexhaustible generosity: these are the pillars of Kaitlin Endres' young (but surprisingly diverse) medical career.
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Everything you always wanted to know about Family Medicine (but were afraid to ask)
Way back in the early 2000’s, family medicine in Canada was facing a crisis. The government had reduced residency positions across the country, the remuneration was flawed, and the perception...
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How should med students spend their pandemic summer?
How to make the most of your summer in these unprecedented times.
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COVID-19: Med student delivery services feed those in need
How med students in Ontario are putting food on the table for the most vulnerable populations.
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An emergency physician’s view of COVID-19
How one ER doctor has navigated the big shifts and tiny changes prompted by the pandemic, and how it has made her optimistic for the future...
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Allen Champagne is changing the game
The former NCAA football athlete and current Queen’s med student has turned his love for sport into a national health initiative that works to reduce sport-related head injuries.
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COVID-19 UPDATE: Alberta contact tracing initiative turns heads around the world
Franco Rizzuti was preparing for the COVID outbreak long before most others. As a public health and preventive medicine resident, he was working on a response plan...
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For the ones we love
Mélanie-Rose Frappier, a 2nd year medical student at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine has been receiving a lot of positive feedback from people within her community and beyond after she wrote..
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COVID-19 UPDATE: UBC students step up to combat the pandemic
It was a Saturday afternoon in the middle of March when the Faculty of Medicine at UBC informed its med students that they were being pulled from their clinical duties...
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COVID-19 UPDATE: Northern Ontario students addressing the unique need of their region
Unlike other parts of the country where medical students were running PPE drives, NOSM students had not yet started a northern Ontario-wide drive yet and wanted to coordinate existing community effort
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COVID-19 UPDATE: How med students in Toronto have filled the PPE gap
One initiative, started by a group of med students in Toronto, has found a simple but effective way to help health care practitioners stay protected—and their program has begun to evolve...
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COVID-19 UPDATE: Med students and mental health
As you’re already well aware, med school is stressful at the best of times—and these certainly aren’t the best of times. The pressure that med students find themselves under right now is exceptional.
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COVID-19 UPDATE: Western students’ offer to help goes viral in the best possible way
In the last several months, the term “going viral” has taken back its original meaning. But that doesn’t mean the pandemic hasn’t stopped social media posts from spreading quickly...
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COVID-19 UPDATE: A guide to financial support for students
Together with the Canadian Federation of Medical Students, we’ve compiled and summarized some of the most important financial information you need to be aware of during this exceptional time.
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COVID-19 UPDATE: McGill students provide support to frontline workers
In the chaotic first days of the pandemic, only one thing seemed certain: healthcare workers were about to take on a huge burden...
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COVID-19 UPDATE: med students lead the charge to protect health care workers
As shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) continues to generate headlines around the world, a team of med students from Queen’s has started an initiative to create more PPE.
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COVID-19 weekly update 04/02: med students making a difference
As the situation with COVID-19 continues to evolve, both at home and abroad, only one thing is certain: this global pandemic is very quickly changing the way we go about our daily lives.
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The reality of medical TV
Can watching TV actually make you a better doctor?
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Our 10 most popular posts of 2019
From artificial intelligence, to climate change, to burrito-based economic models, we covered everything that mattered at the end of the decade.
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5 best last-minute gifts for med students
From travel mugs to board games, here are a few things for your Christmas list that might help you survive the next year of med school...
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